Gurugram sees 147 new cases, tally now 13,468

GURUGRAM: The city on Monday reported 147 fresh cases of Covid-19, taking the tally to 13,468. However, health department officials said that the number of cases recorded on Monday is higher than 147 and attributed the figure to a glitch on the ICMR website.
“The district has reported less number of cases due to some glitch on the ICMR website. The exact number did not reflect on the portal as it was not working properly. We could not get complete details and data could not be uploaded on the ICMR website,” said Dr Virender Yadav, chief medical officer.
Moreover, 149 recoveries were reported as per the Covid-19 bulletin released by the district authorities. Two more people died of the infection on Monday taking the toll to 139, of whom 97 had comorbidities.
The number of active cases has escalated to 1,682 and the total number of recoveries recorded so far is 11,647. On Monday, a total of 2,673 samples were sent for testing, of which 1,251 were sent for rapid antigen testing, 767 for RT-PCR test in government labs and the remaining 655 samples were tested at private labs.